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Table 1 Chemical composition of sugarcane bagasse (SB) native hemicellulose hydrolysate, vacuum concentrated, and detoxified (overliming plus activated charcoal)

From: Multi-scale structural and chemical analysis of sugarcane bagasse in the process of sequential acid–base pretreatment and ethanol production by Scheffersomyces shehatae and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Compound (g/l)

Crude hydrolysate

Concentrated hydrolysate (3x)

Detoxified hydrolysate

Glucose

nd

0.39

0.31

Xylose

10.9

37.44

30.89

Arabinose

nd

2.73

2.31

Acetic acid

0.53

1.83

1.26

HMF

0.005

6 × 10-3

5.93 × 10-4

Furfural

0.02

2.85 × 10-3

1 × 10-3

pH

1.0

0.5

5.5

  1. HMF, hydroxymethylfurfural; nd, not detectable; SB, sugarcane bagasse.